{"id":11563,"date":"2024-02-27T17:38:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T17:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=11563"},"modified":"2024-02-27T17:38:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T17:38:33","slug":"president-museveni-meets-kenyas-president-ruto-and-his-archrival-former-prime-minister-odinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/president-museveni-meets-kenyas-president-ruto-and-his-archrival-former-prime-minister-odinga\/","title":{"rendered":"President Museveni Meets Kenya\u2019s President Ruto And His Archrival Former Prime Minister Odinga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Agrees to back Odinga\u2019s candidacy for the Chairmanship of the African Union Commission (AUC)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>President Yoweri Museveni has met Kenya\u2019s two political rivals President William Ruto and &nbsp;former Prime Minister, Raila Odinga at his Kisozi country home . Museveni has since agreed to back Odinga\u2019s candidacy &nbsp;for the Chairmanship of the African Union Commission (AUC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a brief statement released on his official Twitter (X) handle Odinga said : \u201cI am very grateful to President Museveni for strongly endorsing my candidacy and to President Ruto for fully backing it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-attachment-id=\"11566\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/president-museveni-meets-kenyas-president-ruto-and-his-archrival-former-prime-minister-odinga\/unnamed-2-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,683\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"unnamed-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-2.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-2.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The two leaders from Kenya were in Uganda at &nbsp;the invitation of President Museveni to discuss the deepening of regional integration within the East African Community (EAC) given that the bloc is navigating economic tensions between Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, and between Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ruto stated , \u201cKenya and Uganda are committed to the deepening of the long-established diplomatic and economic ties between our two countries. This relationship includes bringing all the seven East African Community nations closer in their ultimate goal to form the East African Political Federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"970\" data-attachment-id=\"11567\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/president-museveni-meets-kenyas-president-ruto-and-his-archrival-former-prime-minister-odinga\/unnamed-3-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1126,1067\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"unnamed-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-3.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-3-1024x970.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-3.jpg 1126w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Had the pleasure of meeting&nbsp; President Yoweri Museveni at his Kisozi country home in Uganda. We discussed critical issues that affect our two countries such as energy and petroleum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also discussed was the declared candidacy of Kenya&#8217;s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga for the Africa Union Commission chairmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor:msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Yoweri Museveni has met Kenya\u2019s two political rivals President William Ruto and &nbsp;former Prime Minister, Raila Odinga at his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/unnamed-1-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13382,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/eac-games-kick-off-in-mombasa-as-kenyas-president-ruto-calls-for-unity-drums-up-support-for-raila\/","url_meta":{"origin":11563,"position":0},"title":"EAC Games Kick Off in Mombasa As Kenya&#8217;s President Ruto calls For Unity , Drums Up Support For Raila","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"December 7, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"By Our Reporter in Mombasa At least 3,500 MPs and their support staff from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, South Sudan, Somalia and DR Congo are participating in the competition President William Ruto arrived in Mombasa on Saturday to open the 14th edition of the East African Community (EAC) inter-parliamentary\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;National News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"National News","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/category\/national-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eac.jpg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eac.jpg 1x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eac.jpg 1.5x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eac.jpg 2x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eac.jpg 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15762,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/president-museveni-buganda-kingdom-mourn-former-kenyan-prime-minister-raila-odinga\/","url_meta":{"origin":11563,"position":1},"title":"President Museveni , Buganda Kingdom Mourn Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"October 16, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has paid tribute to the late Raila Amolo Odinga, the former Prime Minister of Kenya, saying he was a freedom fighter and a strong voice for Pan-Africanism. 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